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The moment I realized I was in love with him was almost too late. His bag was on his shoulder and his keys were in his hand as he slid the loft door open. My heart dropped and I sucked in breath like the room was suddenly airless. He turned to me green eyes cutting through me with questions.
I laid my shaking hand on his shoulder like so many times before but this time was different this time I was terrified that I'd given a broken man permission to in turn break me and I knew he could and I'd let him just for the opportunity to kiss him. I wore sarcasm and eye rolls like armor but nothing could change the fact that he got in without even asking. No amount of running around in the woods at a ridiculous hour nor rousing game of hide and seek with your local Kanima could keep me from him, from loving him. In that moment I realized that he was everything to me.
I slid my hand to his neck and he dropped his keys. I put my other and on his cheek and he dropped his bag. Step by step I was undoing him. "Stay." That was all I could say but he broke away from me and went to the door. He slid it closed and froze with his back to me. "Forever." I said and he turned locking our eyes together. Then my face was buried in his chest and our arms locked tightly around each other, he kissed me sealing us together forever and we breathed the same air and tasted each others tears.
We aren't broken anymore and I've never been so happy and fulfilled. Trusting Derek was the best decision I've ever made. (The Best Moments of My Life -Stiles Hale pg.1)